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pith:2011:KZ4FYYXRFORB47KWLGAAF2JXVW
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Central Powering of the Largest Lyman-alpha Nebula is Revealed by Polarized Radiation

2, (2) CNRS, 3), (3) Geneva Observatory, (4) University of Minnesota, 5), (5) Spitzer, (6) Caltech), Brian Siana (6) ((1) University of Toulouse, Claudia Scarlata (4, IRAP, Matthew Hayes (1

arxiv:1108.3332 v1 · 2011-08-16 · astro-ph.CO

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Canonical hash

56785c62f12ba21e7d56598002e937ada819509b6f2c877ceb40147d7214bbcb

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arxiv: 1108.3332 · arxiv_version: 1108.3332v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.3332 · pith_short_12: KZ4FYYXRFORB · pith_short_16: KZ4FYYXRFORB47KW · pith_short_8: KZ4FYYXR
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KZ4FYYXRFORB47KWLGAAF2JXVW \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 56785c62f12ba21e7d56598002e937ada819509b6f2c877ceb40147d7214bbcb
Canonical record JSON
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